Welcome

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Welcome!

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Thanks Jeff! --Orangehues 10:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Adding references

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I saw your note about trying to add references to Steorn in Talk:Steorn#Suggested Edits. I must say that you've jumped into one of the trickier areas of wiki editing. The reason you don't see them when you edit the "References" section is that they're not actually in that section, they just appear there when the page is displayed. (I know, it's confusing. Even experienced editors have a problem with this oddity.)

The full citations we're using for this article are actually inserted right after the article text, in the place where the superscript footnote number appears. Thus, the (current) first sentence in "The Company" section looks like this in the edit window:

According to the Irish Examiner, Steorn was founded in 2000.<ref name="irish-exam">
{{cite news
  | url = http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=business-qqqm=business-qqqa=business-qqqid=11133-qqqx=1.asp
  | title = "Wanted: scientists to test free energy technology"
  | work = Irish Examiner
  | date = [[20 August]] [[2006]]
  | accessdate = 2006-08-20
}}
</ref>

I added the bolding to mark the ref tags, which are what create the reference in the "References" section below. The "cite" template is just a handy way of standardizing the citation format. Anything you put between the matching ref tags will create a numbered footnote above and a reference with the in-between text below, wherever the tag <references/> is placed. (For Steorn, it's currently in the "References" section, just below some general (non-numbered) citations.)

Anyway, that's the system in a nutshell. As Kgf0 and I suggest under your post, Wikipedia:Cite your sources (WP:CITE) and Wikipedia:Footnotes (WP:FOOT) go into much more detail about this system. If it gets too overwhelming, of course, you can ask for help, as you did, or just add a simpler reference form, and someone will probably fix it quickly on such an active article. I hope this helps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks again Jeff for the wonderful explanation. I got it in seconds. Thanks! -- Orangehues 18:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Frank Shuman

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A tag has been placed on Frank Shuman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Frank Shuman

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 06:49, 30 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Edits to CCD article

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Hi. Please bear in mind that the CCD article is about a honey bee disease; studies discussing birds and other wildlife are not relevant in the CCD article, nor do any of the papers cited in the review (e.g., Sahib's) pertain to CCD (which is now known to be a fungal/viral disease). Even the authors of the review admit that there is no known connection to CCD, so citing the study at all in the CCD article is a borderline thing. It certainly does not bear the extensive discussion here that your edits reflect; just because EMF can disrupt a honey bee colony does NOT mean that it is relevant to an article about CCD. This is not about interpretation of results, but whether those results are relevant to the Wikipedia article being edited. I would suggest that if you wish to draw attention to this study, that you do so in one of the other articles in Wikipedia discussing the effects of EMF; the link to honey bees is marginal at best, and the link to CCD is essentially nonexistent. Dyanega (talk) 20:17, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Charles Eisenstein

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The article Charles Eisenstein has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. TheLongTone (talk) 17:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Charles Eisenstein

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A tag has been placed on Charles Eisenstein requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Kapil Kapoor

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Please have a read of some of WP's policies such as :

Hope these help LightGreenApple talk to me 01:42, 10 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

File permission problem with File:Prof. Kapil Kapoor at the House of Lords.jpg

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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